General Elliot Thorpe Collection (Mss. Gr. 154)
University of Rhode Island, University Archives and Special Collections
15 Lippitt RoadKingston, RI 02881-2011
Tel: 401-874-4632
email: archives@etal.uri.edu
Collection Overview
| Title: | General Elliot Thorpe Collection |
| Date range: | 1928-1999 |
| Creator: | Thorpe, General Elliot R. (Elliot Raymond), 1897-1989 |
| Extent: | 1 box(es) (0.25 linear feet) |
| Abstract: | Gen. Elliott Thorpe's U.S. Army career (1916-1949) encompassed two world wars, the reconstruction of Japan and a tour of duty in post-war Thailand. A native of Westerly, R.I. Gen. Thorpe attended Rhode Island State College, now the University of Rhode Island, and was instrumental in raising funds for the construction of a War Memorial Student Union on campus. Gen. Thorpe's war time memoir, East Wind, Rain, was published in 1969. This collection contains copies of clippings (1928-1969), a copy of a video tape of a BBC production on Pearl Harbor in which Gen. Thorpe was interviewed (1989), facsimiles of photographs of Thorpe and Gen. Douglas MacArthur (1945), a signed copy of East Wind, Rain, and a ceremonial sword surrendered to Thorpe upon the occasion of the Japanese surrender aboard the USS Missouri in 1945. |
| Language of materials: | English. |
| Repository: | University Archives and Special Collections |
| Collection number: | Mss. Gr. 154 |
